Dumbledore's absence did not affect the smooth start of the new semester.
Perhaps it was to pull the students back from the relaxing Christmas holiday,
All of the teachers, led by Vice-Principal Professor Mag, opened the new semester with stern faces, making the little animals, who had been lazing around for a month, very nervous. Harry was also not very used to the huge pile of homework that was pushed to him.
Among the people he knew, the only one who could adapt well and enjoy the hardship was Hermione. Miss Granger, who had changed her appearance, did not suddenly become a cheerleader or a socialite. She was still the Hermione that Harry knew.
Within three days of school, she had set a perfect timetable for herself and strictly followed it. Harry looked at the timetable.
There was nothing new: wake up at six o'clock, wash up, and eat breakfast (whole-wheat bread, a glass of milk, and some fruit); review the previous day's work and preview the day's work before eight o'clock; take a half-hour nap and communicate with others; after dinner, walk along the Black Lake for an hour and memorize the history of magic and the outline of spells; study free time from seven to ten o'clock; meditate before bed.
Harry was a little apprehensive about a certain word that appeared repeatedly in the table.
He could not help but suggest to Hermione that she should take part in some activities that were beneficial to the development of her character. This was not a suggestion that Harry made on a whim. In fact, less than a week after school started, he realized that with the gradual stabilization of the drama club, there were already some popular and well-managed clubs in Hogwarts.
Dumbledore and Kamia did not plan to hold a large-scale drama festival this semester.
So the original four groups were directly merged.
Kamia held a meeting on the first night of school.
The general arrangement for the semester was explained.
After the meeting, the club members spontaneously gathered together according to their interests.
They were free to use the theater and backstage.
They read the script aloud.
They studied the lines and read some theoretical knowledge under Kamia's guidance. Watching from the sidelines, Harry noticed that Camilla seemed to be encouraging the students to write original plays. Of course, Harry did not intend to support Kamia. He had almost withdrawn from the club. Sometimes, when he walked in the school, people would still call him "Miss Polly". Apart from the drama club,
Hogwarts was currently the most popular club.
The most popular club on the Hogwarts forum was the Practical Magic Research Society led by the twins.
Almost half of the Hogwarts students were registered members of the Practical Magic Research society.
Even though it had a "Practical" title to pass the review,
But from Harry's point of view, this organization was more suitable to be called the "Prank Research Camp". Most of the time, they were studying which of the eighteen types of "fire" magic was more suitable for such imaginative topics as BBQ. Wait a minute, well, it's really practical? The second was the Crown Society of Ravenclaw College, which was a nerd gathering in Hogwarts (Hermione joined the society after listening to Harry's proposal). Harry often saw members of the Crown Society on the forum arguing about the impact of the Sprite Rebellion on the magic world. But after a day, the topic suddenly changed to whether the Sprite Rebellion was necessarily related to the economic prosperity of Hogsmeade (the Sprite Rebellion took place in Hogsmeade). After another day, the topic suddenly changed to how many secret passages to Hogsmeade were left behind during the Sprite Rebellion, so the post was deleted. Other popular clubs were the Craft Society and the Food Research Society founded by Hufflepuff. Harry always felt that all the little badgers were members of these two societies. Other than that, Harry was more familiar with the Babel Reading Society, which was registered under Kamia's name. The applicant was Luna Lovegood.
Harry originally thought that it was Kamia's idea to set up the club, but Luna said that it was her own idea, and the reason was not as complicated as Harry thought. It was because — "This way, we can apply for a venue." Luna shrugged and handed Harry a parchment, asking him to sign to become a member of the reading society. "At least three signatures are needed to set up the club." Harry saw that Luna and Ginny's names were already on the list. He was secretly puzzled, "Does it mean that three signatures are needed to set up the D Branch?" Harry was wondering why Luna didn't go to Ginny's brother, Ron, first. Then he learned that each student could join at most three clubs. Ron was already a member of the Drama Society, the Practical Magic Research Society, and the Food Research Society, while Harry only joined the Drama Society and was often in a wandering state.
In fact, Harry was equivalent to a non-staff member in the Babel Reading Society. Luna told Harry sincerely after he applied for a classroom, "There are not many activities in the reading society. Please feel free to do whatever you want." Harry thought for a while with his back turned. He felt that Luna was telling him not to disturb her and Ginny.
The activity classroom that Luna applied for was on the third floor of the Union Building. The area wasn't big. The two girls moved all the tables and chairs in the small room with the help of their instructor, Kameya, and the twin brother. They only left a wooden coffee table and a few low wooden bookshelves in the small room. When Harry first walked into the activity room, he almost thought that he had walked into Luna's bedroom in Lovegood's house. The soft and comfortable linen carpet, the walls disguised as logs by magic, were covered with green vines. There was a mural hanging in the place where the photo wall used to be. The main character in the mural was his beloved Castle of Hogwarts. The time in the mural was synchronized with the time outside the mural, experiencing the changes of dawn, sunset, and night. The bed was replaced by several sofas that were so soft that a cat could sink into it. Harry took a nap on the sofa and never came to the activity room again. He always felt that he was a huge third wheel, the kind of LSD.
Most of the time, there were only Luna and Ginny in the activity room. Luna was always sitting in front of the tea table, moving the quill constantly, while Ginny was sitting on the sofa, reading the stories that she could never finish. In the quiet room, only the rustling of the quill tip on the parchment and the brushing of the paper could be heard. Later, in order not to miss class or curfew, the two of them added a wall clock. Thus, there was an additional sound of time ticking. At first, the sound always distracted Ginny, but after a while, she was able to accept the artificial time scale calmly.
When her eyes began to ache, or her brain began to ache, Ginny would slide down from the sofa, roll on the carpet, and roll to Luna's side. She would put her head between the pale blonde girl's thighs and arms without saying a word. Sometimes, she would pull Luna's robe, and sometimes, she would tug at Luna's braid. Sometimes, Luna would stop writing and talk to Ginny. Ginny would take Luna's thin hand and observe it while listening: it was soft, pale, and there were obvious calluses between the index and middle fingers of the right hand. Sometimes, Luna would just quietly look at Ginny's red hair, and then give her a full parchment to read. Ginny liked the stories written by Luna very much. She found the strange stories about people's souls being stuffed into stones, or people's heads being placed on cows very interesting. She liked distortion, alienation, irony, and metaphor. She could digest rhetoric and imagery, and then absorb all the emotions.
In addition to these weird stories, Luna also had two interesting black notebooks. One was old and the pages were yellowed, and the other was not finished yet, but the content was full of newspaper clippings and notes. Ginny liked to flip through these two notebooks. These scattered, brief, and incomplete stories were like a big bag of flavored beans. They were very interesting snacks. She read an old report:
According to witnesses, the blue box that appeared many times in the Cardiff area might be a mischievous Vanishing Cabinet. It always disappeared in one place and then reappeared in another place not long after. This was obviously a malicious spell that disrupted the properties of the Vanishing Cabinet.
She read such silly little stories as these:
I saw a big rabbit fishing.
A big rabbit, sitting by the river with a straight face, fishing with a fishing rod.
I mocked him: Rabbit, don't you eat carrots? Why are you fishing now?
I pulled his ears. I pulled his tail. I made a face at him and said he was a fool.
The grumpy rabbit took a deep breath and told me coldly: A rabbit doesn't need to fish if he doesn't have a cat friend.
Fine. I wagged my tail and\ meowed\ "proudly."
The owner of the old book seemed to be a very casual person. She filled the edges and corners of the book with fleeting letters, such as:
Remember: This Christmas, go to Sweden to find the Curved Horn Beast.
The castle has collapsed, and we, who have been displaced, are walking toward a vast and empty era.
Tonight, the moon is white and fat, like a pregnant woman's belly.
We are all manipulated by forces we can't perceive at all, just like in "fatalism."
Forgetfulness is as terrible as lovelessness. Forgetfulness is as black as blindness.
'We can't go back anymore. That's a lie, right? That's a lie …'
These inexplicable sentences appeared abruptly everywhere, like unpredictable feather candy. They melted on Ginny's tongue so fast that she didn't even have time to savor the taste.
In addition to killing time in the activity room, the red-haired girl and the blonde girl would knock on Kamia's door together. The female professor would give them hugs, kisses, and the right to use the fireplace. They could go to Hogsmeade through the fireplace. Ginny couldn't compare, but she felt that Kamia had been more indulgent to them recently. The hugs and smiles seemed to be mixed with more complex emotions. Hogsmeade was always interesting. They didn't have much pocket money with them. They simply walked from one end of the street to the other with a candy bar in their mouths, looking at the changes in the street. Then they would choose a crowded restaurant, order a juice, a sausage with onions, and a bread with blueberry jam. While eating, they would discuss how the cute waitress's relationship was going, and whether the worried old wizard was reminiscing about his lost right arm or left eye. After eating, they would walk hand in hand to the photo studio that Bart and Haimei had visited. They would take a picture together, and when they got back, they would paste it in the old photo album and compare it with the last time.
They weren't the only ones who used the professor's fireplace to go out. There were several regular users of Kamia's fireplace. It was probably a well-known secret. A few strands of long hair would be left in Professor Flitwick's fireplace, and Cedric would knock on Professor Sprout's door on the same day. Neville was also Professor Sprout's favorite child, but Ginny had also seen him in Kamia's office. He would blush and talk about Saint Mungo, and then Kamia would rub his head and push him into the fireplace. Another frequent visitor of Kamia's office was Harry, which made Ginny feel a little strange. She had thought that Harry would ask for help from Snape.
Just like how Ginny was once Lockhart's Ginevra, it wasn't particularly strange for professors to have their own "favorite students". Even the fearsome Dean Slytherin had his own favorites, such as Drac Malfoy. Harry Potter seemed to be one of those who received special treatment. Not to mention the scandal in the "Hogwarts Daily", ever since Lockhart was fired, Snape became the substitute teacher for the Black Magic Defense class. Snape, who took the practical route, quickly joined forces with Mystique and Shazan to combine this class with the combat class, adding a lot of practical training courses. Moreover, from the first Black Magic Defense class of the semester, Harry was elected as the class representative. He represented the students on stage to demonstrate, represented the students to fight Snape, and represented the students to endure the Snake King's venom spray. This was also known as "wearing three watches". The withering class representative Potter demonstrated his improving ability under high pressure to the students. At the same time, insiders sympathetically told everyone that Harry, who couldn't bear the burden, was so miserable that he needed the Water of Life and Death to sleep.
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